Word: italia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuori d'Italia, va' fuori, ch'è l'ora, Va' fuori d'Italia, va' fuori, stranier...
Through the twilit Ligurian Sea, into that sea which Italians lately called Mare Nostrum, the Roma sailed with the companion battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, six cruisers and several destroyers. From Taranto, the Italian base in the south, the older, smaller battleships Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria, two cruisers and a destroyer were sailing through the same darkness to the same destination: Malta...
...four-and-a-half hours, intermittently, the other ships were bombed. The Italia was hit. She settled low in the sea but continued with the fleet. A few destroyers lagged to pick up survivors from the Roma. Admiral Bagliria was not among them. The main body of the fleet sailed on. At 8:35 a.m. next day, off Cap Bon, the Italia, the Vittorio Veneto and their lesser flock sighted H.M.S. Warspite, waiting with a British squadron...
Cameras for Guns. The Warspite had fought the Italians at Matapan; she had put a broadside into the Italia (then the Littorio) at Taranto. She had been bombed off Crete. Of late she had seen nothing of the Italian Navy. Now, as the Italians approached, the Warspite's crew manned the guns. But they were not in combat dress. Many of them aimed cameras...
...flurry of activity, in secret meetings and high conclaves, the Vatican sought to mediate. The Catholic Italia spoke of the Church's "disinterested pacification mission" (see p. 55). A Swiss report had the Badoglio Government ready to demilitarize Rome, declare it an open city. But neither plaint nor plea yet budged the Al lied High Command. At week's end Allied heavy bombers resumed the attack on the restive northern cities of Genoa, Milan and Turin...